How to Use utopian in a Sentence

utopian

1 of 2 adjective

• He’s talked about his process in near-utopian terms.
  — Colin Joyce, Pitchfork, 28 Jan. 2026
• There’s this almost utopian small-town feel to it.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 June 2026
• But when better to talk about utopian ideas than in dystopian times?
  — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Sep. 2025
• Such perspective sounds utopian when the boos still echo.
  — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
• Stallworth frames his idea in the murky utopian language of many tech ventures.
  — Jack Denton, Curbed, 3 Mar. 2021
• Let it be done away with — utopian selfism on the left, and Mammonism on the right.
  — John D. Hagen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
• The cottage retains its utopian squalor.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
• Isn’t this a perfect utopian future?
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
• Yet there are progressive, even utopian, aspects to the piece.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 July 2023
• At the end, we are released on a note that is either utopian or dryly ironic.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 18 May 2021
• To stand on the left is to insist that those aspirations are not utopian.
  — Time, 27 June 2023
• For some, cellphones and radios were part of a utopian vision of the future.
  — Michelle Delgado, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• What was once a utopian paradise is now a near featureless ruin.
  — Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2024
• But the utopian strain of tech has never seemed so thin as when collides with a state that throws its weight around the old fashioned way.
  — Kevin T. Dugan, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2021
• But the weight of their grief is just as palpable as the utopian patina of their surroundings.
  — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026
• In many cases, the argument for free trade is not about utopian theories of world peace.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
• Even people of goodwill say a new moral vision is just a utopian idea, given the state of the country.
  — Rich Harwood, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2026
• The plan for a utopian Bay Area city was shrouded in secrecy.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• Musk would be far from the first wealthy businessman to build a utopian-minded company town.
  — Matt Novak, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• Amodei does not say that this utopian AI future is inevitable.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
• Listening to novels no longer seemed like a utopian fantasy at all.
  — Sam Apple, The Atlantic, 21 June 2023
• As for Shirley, her utopian dream is making people think change is possible.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2024
• Whether that’s a utopian or dystopian vision is a matter of perspective.
  — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 14 Apr. 2026
• Godwin’s utopian story didn’t seem to match the evidence.
  — Roy Scranton, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2025
• Their idea is to build a utopian city with new homes, orchards, a solar-energy farm, and plenty of parks and open space.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2023
• This utopian view of the internet has essentially come to fruition.
  — Mark Minevich, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• Purdy’s overall take will no doubt seem utopian to some readers and too progressive for others.
  — E.j. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
• This is why the global village is not a utopian concept or ideal state for McLuhan.
  — Brian A. Cogan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 May 2026
• But between that utopian day and this one, California’s poor will end up paying more for food.
  — Will Swaim, National Review, 9 Aug. 2021
• Recognize that the cost of utopian thinking isn’t just financial.
  — Michaela Jeffery-Morrison, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023

utopian

2 of 2 noun

• The utopians invent paradise and the dystopians invent hell.
  — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 30 Apr. 2026
• For years, technologists and other utopians have argued that online news would be a boon to democracy.
  — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2016
• There have always been plenty of intellectuals and other utopians who ignore this basic truth, of course.
  — Elliot Kaufman, National Review, 28 July 2017
• But if the techno-utopians get carried away in their exuberance, Taplin sometimes veers too far in the other direction.
  — Emily Parker, Orange County Register, 15 May 2017
• Techno-utopians point out that, historically, advancements have led to the explosion of huge new business sectors and jobs.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
• Both technologies promise even more strife between the health foods crowd and Silicon Valley techno-utopians.
  — Adrienne Bitar, Time, 28 Nov. 2019
• If not, these elements of Musk’s project are likely to remain more theoretical, just as the dreams of last century’s techno-utopians did.
  — Sonja Fritzsche, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
• Then there were all those annoying Tolstoyans—vegetarians, fruit-juice drinkers, utopians of every stripe—her husband encouraged to hang around the house.
  — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 11 May 2018
• Digital nomadism, as an update to both the old hippie trail and get-rich-quick fantasies, unsurprisingly attracts dreamers and utopians, people prone to feelings of betrayal by those who don’t live up to their own ideals.
  — Benjamin Wallace, Daily Intelligencer, 12 July 2017
• Some of the utopians of the dot com bubble believed that the internet was going to massively enhance our productive ability to study and make art, bringing about a digital Renaissance.
  — Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
• But the American leaders who midwifed the UN as World War II was still raging were somber realists, not utopians.
  — Andreas Kluth, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
• For now, the local government seems receptive toward the crypto utopians; the governor will speak at their blockchain summit conference, called Puerto Crypto, in March.
  — Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
• The playwright understood something about the economic reasoning of such an innovation, however, for if the futurists and techno-utopians once imagined that machines would do all of our dreary work to free us to be artists, writers, and musicians, the opposite is now the case.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
• But outside the Dorado Beach gates, life is far from a utopian as the decades-long crisis makes essential services, employment, and wealth inaccessible to locals, leaving Puerto Ricans unable to thrive at home.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 3 May 2021